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When you have come to the decision that you need to lose some of that excess weight, the process might seem like something of an uphill struggle. You can always use some helpful tips to help you and here are some basic, yet useful weight loss tips that will help you achieve what you have decided to do. These tips may seem pretty basic, but you’ll be surprised at how they are so often ignored or simply not even thought about by so many people who regularly fail to lose any weight, or put back on what they do lose soon after completing a diet plan.

The most basic aspect of weight loss is in one simple but very firm rule that is almost flawless in its logic and almost always absolutely true when applied to anybody, anywhere. That rule is that in order for weight loss to occur, your body must burn more calories than it consumes. The rule is almost infallible because when you think about it, you cannot make body mass out of nothing. It all comes from what you eat (and drink) and how your body then deals with what it’s getting in converting it into energy to burn. So from this, we can see that there really are only two basic needs for you to lose weight:

You must eat a healthy, low calorie diet to restrict the calories ingested

You must exercise to burn more of the energy provided by those calories

All the rest is just window dressing. It’s really that simple.

So you need to start by looking at what you are eating and drinking and calculate the calories it all provides. Be honest with yourself here, because cheating won’t hurt anyone but you. Then you need to balance that by working out the amount of exercise you will need to do in order to burn more calories of energy than you are consuming. When you do that, you will lose weight. It will be gradual and at first it may even seem like you are not losing any weight at all.

This is because exercise builds muscle mass. Muscle tissue weighs more than fat. So as your body consumes the stores of fat, it builds up your muscles until a point is reached where the fat is used up faster than the muscles grow. This might sound like you are going to look like a bodybuilder, but it doesn’t work that way. You will tone up and look much more slender and fit, which is the main goal after all. You want to look good in that new set of clothes, don’t you? Well, that is how it’s done!